In this image released by NBC, director Quentin Tarantino accepts the award for best original score on behalf of Ennio Morricone for the film "The Hateful Eight" at the Golden Globes. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)

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Ennio Morricone wasn't on hand to accept his best score award for Hateful Eight during Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony, so director Quentin Tarantino hopped onto the stage to accept it for him. And while his gushing about the 87-year-old Morricone's esteemed career was more or less appropriate, what he said next rubbed many the wrong way. "And when I say favorite composer, I don't mean movie composer—that ghetto," he said, per the Independent. "I'm talking about Mozart. I'm talking about Beethoven. I'm talking about Schubert."

Presenter Jamie Foxx, who starred in Tarantino's Django Unchained, returned to the mic when Tarantino was done and simply repeated, "Ghetto?" Folks on social media didn't seem thrilled by the director's choice of words, either, posting screenshots of apparently displeased audience members like Regina King and Rihanna. One commenter, though, tried to add some perspective: "Quentin tarantino says ghetto and everyone gets offended. Where were you guys at when he put the n-word in his movie over 100 times."

yeah, sorry but I don't get the outrage. nobody owns the word ghetto, and Tarantino has been as pro-black as any director this side of spike lee, despite what spike lee may think. Shame on Jamie Foxx for being a clueless dick. Dictionaries list a number of possible origins for the originally Venetian term, including "gheto" or "ghet", which means slag or waste in Venetian, and was used in this sense in a reference to a foundry where slag was stored located on the same island as the area of Jewish confinement (the Venetian Ghetto),[2] and borghetto, diminutive of borgo 'borough'.[3] Others theorize that the word is derived from the Hebrew word get, a divorce or separation document.[4]

Maxamillion Mansionhouse III

Jan 13, 2016 11:17 AM CST

So those few black people who made crunch faces at the word 'ghetto' don't realize they use the word in every interview they've ever done? Jamie Foxx calling another person racist ha? Wow. Who are the real racists here thinking and obviously putting it out there that, "Who is this white guy trying to use the word ghetto?"

Red_Ruffansore

Jan 11, 2016 2:24 PM CST

Feeling chimpslapped? Well Tantrumtino is your boy, you reign him in. Jamie Foxx has no room to talk, that idiot doesn't even know what falls out of his empty head until he hears about it the next day in the media.